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# Staff Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
- **Location:** Collin, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £50,938.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Integration Architecture, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Mobile Application Software, Retail Software, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Web Platforms, ReactJS, Event Driven Architecture, Data Management, React Native, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Web Api, Microservices
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5903623914

## About the Role

You Have

 * 7+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, or platform architecture experience

 * Strong experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS

 * Experience with digital platforms, microservices, APIs, and integration architecture

 * Experience with React, React Native and Mobile App deployments

 * API design and review experience

 * Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise or in-store systems

 * Experience producing architecture diagrams and technical decision records

 * Experience participating in architecture reviews or technical governance

 * Strong technical judgment and communication skills

Nice to Have

 * Digital commerce or omni-channel loyalty experience

 * POS, restaurant, or retail technology experience

 * Azure experience

 * Familiarity with messaging, event-driven architectures, and data platforms

 * Enterprise Architecture or architecture governance experience

## Description

What We NeedKFC Global is seeking a Staff Architect to provide architecture leadership across our global restaurant technology portfolio. You will work with product, engineering, market technology teams, and Yum! architecture teams across digital commerce (Web, Mobile App), loyalty, POS, and restaurant technology., What You'll Do

 * Guide architecture for KFC Global technology initiatives
 * Guide market digital commerce and restaurant technology integration architecture across KFC Global
 * Design and review cloud-native solutions on AWS
 * Review integrations, APIs, service boundaries and system responsibilities
 * Review and guide front-end architecture for web and mobile applications using React and React Native, including integration with backend APIs and shared platform capabilities
 * Review data and event-driven designs where needed as part of broader solutions
 * Identify architectural risks, trade-offs, and opportunities for reuse
 * Represent KFC initiatives through Yum!'s Architecture Review Process
 * Provide technical guidance to engineering and product teams


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